People are awesome, but the girl at 3:47 is awesomer.
A harrowing tale about a book headed towards doom, only to detour towards its author upon a European journey back to Airspace Workshop.
The Decemberists performed The Hazards of Love at The Treasure Island Music Festival this past Sunday. The highlight of my weekend was their rock opera’s visual treatment, which had me scouring the web looking for some trace of the film. This morning I tripped over the tasty href I had fruitlessly searched for in my inbox, courtesy of Boards. The full-length version will be available on iTunes December 1st.
Each volume of the Time-Life Life Science Library has a radical little icon on its back cover, further proof of the awesomeness of 1960’s graphic design. Above is a sampling of some of the work. I’ll leave it up to you to guess what volume each represents.
Received the Phaidon Design Classics set in the post as a gift, thanks Chef Pants! Everything from the safety pin to the Powerbook is contained within these three volumes of design pr0n. Sadly, the “specially designed carrying unit” is so poorly designed it’s embarrassing. It’s like delivering someone stacks of gold in this thing.

